Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when State absorbed some 3,000 employees of the OWI and the OSS. The loyalty program had not yet been instituted, and since then, Acheson insisted, State had done a good job of weeding out "misfits." Said Acheson: "We are satisfied-as far as anyone can be in this imperfect world-that we have a good, clean, loyal and honest outfit...
...Maturity is not guaranteed by lapse of time. In this imperfect world not all individuals and not all peoples, however long they live, achieve it . . . Go into some Latin American countries where free speech is allowed, and, if an election campaign is in progress, note the campaign language painted on the walls of the town: Viva Rodríguez! Que muera González! (Long Live Rodríguez! Death to González!). The Gonzalistas, in turn, announce that when they get into power they will hang the Rodriguistas. Imagine an election campaign conducted in the U.S. or England...
...about culture," trilled Authoress Ilka (Past Imperfect) Chase, 44, who blew into Portland, Ore. to tell dealers how to sell Cadillacs to women. "Of course," she told the press, one "can be very successful or proficient and still not be cultured...